City Government Quotes - Page 1

People feel like city government is corrupt. They feel like it doesn't work unless you have clout.
Lori Lightfoot /
City Government
Clout
Corrupt
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Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?
Richard J. Daley / Former Mayor Of Chicago
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Betrayed
Cities
City Government
Denied
Doubted
Lord
Our Lord
Perfection
City
Disciples
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City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur.
Gavin Newsom / Lieutenant Governor Of California
Government
City Government
Emergencies
Loss
Order
Property
Tragedy
Avoid
Possible
Help
Minimize
Occur
Prepare
San
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As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy.
Gavin Newsom / Lieutenant Governor Of California
City Government
Groups
Innovative
Projects
San Francisco
Streets
Businesses
Francisco
Mayor
San
Vibrant
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I'm one who demands a lot from people. I'm not afraid to look at alternative ways in city government. That's what I've done in my two years and will continue to do in the next four.
Richard M. Daley / Former Mayor Of Chicago
City Government
Alternative
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The Seoul city government has been cooperating with the central government to stabilize the housing market, and we plan to brainstorm all possible ways with the government to better counter the issue.
Park Won-Soon /
Central Government
City Government
Cooperating
Housing
Housing Market
Counter
Brainstorm
Stabilize
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I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
Jerry Garcia / Musician
Government
Cities
City Government
Ideas
Mean
Musician
Plumbing
Come
Idea
City
Just Because
While
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Chicago is the largest city in the country without mayoral term limits. This has led to entrenched leaders, a lack of new ideas and creative thinking and a city government that works for the few, not the many.
Lori Lightfoot /
City Government
New Ideas
Term Limits
Entrenched
Largest
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Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn't imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.
Michelle Obama / Former First Lady Of The United States
Jobs
City Government
Dean
Imagine
Organization
Ran
University
Youth
Associate
Early
Served
Throughout
Worked
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I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990.
Anatoly Chubais / Politician
Government
Bureaucrats
Cities
City Government
Complicated
Management
Team
Condition
Bureaucratic
Experienced
Joined
Local
Local Level
Operate
Practical
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I have a wealth of experience, not only as a senior executive in different departments in the city, but I've also, in my private practice life, helped small businesses, middle-market businesses really try to navigate the sometimes difficult world of city government.
Lori Lightfoot /
City Government
Navigate
Senior
Departments
Executive
Small Businesses
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I finally said, 'I don't care if you're the first person in your family to be a lawyer.' Everybody thought what I was doing was really exciting, but it was not moving me one bit. And that's when I decided to join city government in Chicago, and that changed my life.
Valerie Jarrett / Lawyer
Chicago
City Government
Life Family Government
Join
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The point is, is that when you elect a politician, it has nothing to do with their personality. Politicians perform a function, a role in government. And the role of city government is not one that serves the people, unless the people make them do what the people want.
Boots Riley / Poet
City Government
Function
Elect
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